Today in labor history. January 02 In what became known as Palmer Raids, Attorney General Mitchell Palmer arrests 4,000 foreign-born labor agitators. He believed Communism was “eating its way into the homes of the American workman,” and Socialists were causing most of the country’s social problems - 1920 An underground explosion at Sago Mine in Tallmansville, W. Va., traps 12 miners and cuts power to the mine. Eleven men die, mostly by asphyxiation. The mine had been cited 273 times for safety violations over the prior 23 months - 2006 From unionist/today-in-labor-history-95 January 2, 1800 – The free black community of Philadelphia, led by Absalom Jones, petitioned Congress to abolish slavery and to end the fugitive slave act of 1793. (From the Daily Bleed and USHistory.org) January 2, 1873 -- Anton Pannekoek (1873-1960) was born on this date. Pannekoek was a Dutch astronomer, mathematician and radical left-communist. Among other works, he published the pamphlet Darwinism and Marxism, 1916, which strongly attacked the social Darwinists, like Spencer. He also wrote the classic, “Workers Councils.” (From the Daily Bleed) January 2, 1905 - A conference of 23 industrial unionists met in Chicago and issued a manifesto calling for an industrial Union Congress to be held in Chicago on June 27—a meeting that would lead to the formation of the Industrial Workers of the World (or IWW or Wobblies). (From Workday Minnesota) From modeducation.blogspot/2013/01/today-in-labor-historyjanuary-2.html?m=1 1) Sago mine in Upshur County, West Virginia on January 2, when blast cut off 13 miners. While company officials delayed, 12 died. The mine had hundreds of safety violations and should hav been closed. (Photo: Bob Bird/AP) Source: internationalist.org/sagominedisaster0601.html 2) Absalom Jones. Source: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absalom_Jones
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